IT'S A GENUINE COPY
By Ian Fife
I've never worked out exactly why Olympia Café in Kalk Bay has people lining up to get in when perfectly good restaurants nearby stand empty. The baking is excellent and the food's okay but one is often irritated by the shoving of pe...

GO BOLDLY
By Larry Claasen
I'm giving up my roadmap. For some time I didn't see the point of a global positioning system (GPS), but Mio's DigiWalker C510z has won me over. My prejudice was born out of a previous GPS I had to evaluate, which was a bit of a dog...

ON THE LINKS
By Prakash Naidoo
Having been minister of defence during apartheid's bleakest years, it was perhaps inevitable that Gen Magnus Malan would have a particularly rough ride as SA entered its first days of democracy. In 1995, a year after the first dem...

COMINGS & GOINGS

Patrick Mathidi Resigns from Credit Suisse Standard Securities (CSSS) after just less than a year as deputy CE of this joint venture. Mathidi was MD at Andisa before its wholesale operations unit was absorbed by CSSS. ...

ICC WORLD CUP
By David Williams
How does the ICC World Cup work? The 16 teams are in four groups. Each team plays the other three in its group, with two points for a win. Then the top two from each group go to the Super 8 stage. Do these eight teams all play o...

SOUL ON THE MENU
By Shannon Sherry
Everyone has an opinion on Moyo, the chain of restaurants claiming to deliver diverse African fare. Mention it in the FM's newsroom and the general comments are about poor service and so-so food. But there is one thing you can't doubt...

NGALWANA BATS FOR DEPUTY
By Stephen Cranston
The high-profile reign of Vuyani Ngalwana as pension funds adjudicator (PFA) ends this month. The big question is who will replace him. Ngalwana would like to see his deputy, Naleen Jeram, take over. But he has no say in the matter. ...

STILL WORK TO BE DONE

Do you consider your time as pension funds adjudicator (PFA) to have been a success? I like to measure the success of the office in terms of how quickly we resolved issues. I was proud that in the first year we managed to process a ba...

WOMEN ON THE JSE
By Shoks Mzolo
4 companies in the top 40 - Old Mutual, RMB Holdings, PPC and Steinhoff - have no female representation on their boards. 258 out of more than 2 000 directors of all companies listed on the JSE are women. 20 is the number...

GO GETS GOING AGAIN
By Heather Formby
The recently relaunched Gobanking, a five-year partnership between Pick 'n Pay and Nedbank, is just the beginning of the supermarket chain's efforts to emulate retail groups like Tesco by offering a broad range of financial services. ...

WINNERS & LOSERS

LOSER Thabo Mbeki Mr President, it's time to ditch stop-gap measures. The health minister has been ill since October and the interim plans can only undermine the department's chequered delivery record.

WHISPERS AROUND TOWN

Outgoing Telkom chief sales and marketing officer Wally Beelders, who surprised the industry by resigning last week, will soon take up a job at Vodacom, the FM has established. He will look after broadband and "virtual priv...

A WINNABLE BATTLE

Why did you establish the Princess of Africa Foundation? Seeing one of my musicians die of cerebral malaria after we returned from a performance in Gabon in 2004 made me want to do something about it. I mean, here is a preventable, cu...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"We've got confirmation that they are hired to go about and commit violence. I wouldn't know about their being injured in police custody, but... whether they were MDC youths or others they were attacking the police, resisting arrest." - WAYNE...